Super Soldier King and Cute CEO
Chapter 517

Chapter 517: 517

"I’ve been waiting for you for a long time, Tang Zhong!" the elder sized him up and said with a smile.

This indeed flattered Tang Zhong, who had not expected the elder to call out his name.

At this time, noticing the situation, Li Linglong very wisely said, "Master, I have brought the person you asked for, I’ll take my leave first!"

"Mm!" The venerable elder waved his hand.

Li Linglong turned around, gave Tang Zhong a meaningful look, and clenched his fist slightly, which meant to encourage Tang Zhong to be strong.

Tang Zhong understood and smiled in response.

Soon after Li Linglong had left and closed the door behind him,

the only ones left in the room were Tang Zhong and the elder.

"Venerable elder!" Tang Zhong said again respectfully, this time bending at a ninety-degree angle.

"No need to bow any more, nor to call me ’venerable elder.’ According to our seniority, you should call me Grandpa Zhang!" the elder said with a smile.

Tang Zhong was stunned; he had never met this elder before.

"You needn’t be surprised; you haven’t seen me, but I have seen you when you were a child!" the elder said with a smile.

A child? How could Tang Zhong remember events from that time? He immediately exclaimed, "Grandpa Zhang!"

Afterwards, the elder did not continue speaking but scrutinized Tang Zhong, his eyes glittering with light.

"I never thought you would grow to this extent!" the elder said with a smile.

"My name is Zhang Changgong, the thirty-eighth generation successor of Tai Chi, and I knew your grandfather!"

What? Tang Zhong’s eyes widened in shock. He knew his grandfather? And this Grandpa Zhang was a successor of Tai Chi, also surnamed Zhang. This instantly reminded him of a legendary figure named Zhang Sanfeng. Could it be that Grandpa Zhang was a successor of Tai Chi Zhang Sanfeng?

At that moment, Zhang Changgong, ignoring Tang Zhong’s astonishment, continued, "To be precise, we were not just acquaintances but lifelong best friends..."

A best friend of his grandfather deserved even greater respect.

Tang Zhong knelt on the ground and paid his respects, "The junior has seen Grandpa Zhang!"

"Get up, get up, you don’t need to offer such a grand gesture to this old man!" Zhang Changgong laughed heartily, clearly perceiving the level of Tang Zhong’s martial arts cultivation. At such a young age, he was already a Grandmaster.

Only then did Tang Zhong stand up from the ground.

No wonder this elder was helping him so much; it turned out he was his grandfather’s best friend.

"Alright, now if you have any doubts, you can ask me, and I will answer them one by one!" Zhang Changgong said with a smile, "But before that, sit down and enjoy some tea first!"

"Yes, Grandpa Zhang!" Tang Zhong sat cross-legged.

An elder and a younger man facing each other.

Zhang Changgong’s mastery of the tea ceremony was already perfect.

He quickly brewed the tea, poured it into a small cup, and handed it to Tang Zhong, "Drink it; whatever you want to ask, just ask."

Tang Zhong took the tea and sipped lightly, the aroma of the tea instantly filling his nostrils.

"Excellent tea!"

"I didn’t expect you to know about tea!" Zhang Changgong said with a smile.

"I only know a little!" Tang Zhong said with a smile, and then he put down his tea cup. Now, he had many questions he wanted to understand, and he believed Grandpa Zhang would surely be able to help him solve them.

"Grandpa Zhang, why was I in the Black Dragon of the Dragon Group?" Tang Zhong was very curious.

If Li Linglong had said that within Dragon Group, all members of Black Dragon were martial artists, wouldn’t that make him an oddity?

"Good question," Zhang Changgong laughed heartily. "I can only tell you that your name has been on the Dragon Group Black Dragon list since the day you were born!"

What?

Tang Zhong was shocked. His name had been among Black Dragon since birth?

"Who left my name on it!" Tang Zhong pressed on.

"Your grandfather... Tang Zongyao!" Zhang Changgong stated solemnly.

"Grandfather..." Tang Zhong murmured, recalling the images from his childhood, his grandfather’s affectionate demeanor, and he couldn’t help but reach for the Dragon Jade pendant hanging around his neck, clenching it tightly in his fist. The Dragon Jade was the only thing his grandfather had left him.

He had never imagined it was his grandfather who left his name there.

"As for why he didn’t tell me; when he wrote your name, he said he felt that in the future you would definitely become an outstanding martial artist, so your name ended up on the Black Dragon list," Zhang Changgong explained.

Tang Zhong clenched his fists tightly. He was determined to become an outstanding martial artist.

But he still had questions: "But if you were my grandfather’s close friend, why did you choose to help me during my fight with Tang Ran?"

"Did I help you?" Zhang Changgong replied. "In the fight with Tang Ran, you were always fighting alone!"

"The affairs of the Tang Family are not mine to interfere with; I was just helping a person worth helping!"

"Moreover, all this so-called arrangement was your grandfather’s own doing!"

Upon hearing this, Tang Zhong’s expression turned ugly instantly; it was all orchestrated by his grandfather.

"Your grandfather knew he was going to die and also knew that after his death, the Tang Family would fall into internal strife. He once told me to be on the lookout for the most talented person in the Tang Family and said that the one he had the most faith in was you..." said Zhang Changgong.

"Because Tang Ran is vicious at heart and only knows how to take from others, and Tang Xinglou, although he is your father, is too kind-hearted. Neither of them is fit to be the Family Head of the Tang Family. A kind person cannot wield power; but as a child, you led the Crown Prince’s Club, became the Crown Prince, and showed extraordinary leadership capabilities. Therefore, you were the ideal candidate for the Family Head of the Tang Family!"

"However, he couldn’t make a will declaring you as the Family Head before he died; it would have been too unfair for you and would have certainly led to retaliation from others. Thus, he chose to let things take their natural course, and after that, as expected, Tang Ran made his move to seize power, claiming the blood of your parents and your blood, forcing you to evolve," Zhang Changgong explained, sentence by sentence.

Tang Zhong gaped, struggling to believe this was true.

Noticing the change in Tang Zhong, Zhang Changgong continued: "Although your grandfather knew all this would happen and did nothing to stop it, I think you should not blame him. To stand as the Family Head of the Tang Family, what is needed is someone who can intimidate the Tang Family; a true king, not a coward. After all, he couldn’t live forever!"

"It’s okay, I don’t blame him," Tang Zhong said, his emotions fluctuating.

Although this news was hard to accept, it was indeed so. If his grandfather had known everything was going to happen and then stopped it, perhaps the Tang Family would not be as it is now.

Or perhaps, the current situation was actually for the best.

"Furthermore, your grandfather chose you for another very important reason..." Zhang Changgong said carefully, with a very serious and grave expression on his face.

"What reason?" Tang Zhong asked earnestly.

"It is a prophecy, about the Chosen One... On year zero, day zero, fiery meteors fell from the sky and the world plunged into darkness. After the meteor shower, the people of Xuan Country discovered a stele that had descended between heaven and earth. On that stele was just one phrase: ’When the world falls silent, the miracle stones contend, from the heavens descends a divine child... That is the Chosen One!’" Zhang Changgong declared.

"But what does that have to do with me?" Tang Zhong was incredulous upon hearing the prophecy.

"No... it does relate to you. Do you know where your Dragon Jade Pendant came from?" Zhang Changgong asked Tang Zhong seriously.

"That pendant was given to me by my grandfather when I was a child!" Tang Zhong recalled his past and blurted out.

"No... that pendant wasn’t given to you by your grandfather. Instead, it accompanied your birth, descending with you to this world!" Zhang Changgong corrected.

"What?" Tang Zhong’s eyes widened instantly.